variety is good, no?

red eggs for full moon party

These were made as favors to guests who came to celebrate the first full moon of max, my nephew. In the chinese culture, red eggs represent good fortune, completeness, prosperity and fertility.

The eggs are hardboiled.

Then they are dyed. We used beets to accomplish this.

These are the different materials used for the packaging and presentation of the red egg favors. The chinese characters read 'full moon.'

The eggs didn't quite turn red but they were ever so lightly stained....good enough.

Each egg was wrapped with a red cloth.

Then placed in the pouch that was made of parchment paper and sewn together with white thread.

I bunched the top part of each pouch and secured it with gold thread...

....that was tied into a bow.

The finished product.

gift for new parents and baby

My sister and her husband recently had a child and I made a book of wishes and thoughts from friends and family (similar to the 30th birthday project in my other blog entry). There are three parts in this collection; one for the parents and two for the baby. I used moleskin notebooks and handwrote each entry.

For the parents:

For the baby; part 1:

For the baby, part 2:

marley time

feet at rest

walking around new york can be tiring....



the 7 - 61st & woodside stop

the standard hotel bar



recoup lounge in les



highline



the met rooftop



the campbell apartment

I made this calender for a christmas gift. I had printed pictures of the gift receiver and his children on vellum paper, wrote the numbers of the month on card stock underneath and finished off with writing holidays and birthdays on the vellum paper so as to lightly rest on top of the appropriate dates.


september




march

birthday project 2010

This 30th birthday project was conceptualized when I was brainstorming on how to incorporate friends from all over the world of the birthday recipient into one entity. I came up with having friends and family complete three sentences involving the birthday recipient. The past "my favorite memory of you is..," the present "one word that best describes you..," and the future "in the next thirty years, i see you..." I picked three different paper textures, designed the layout, had it printed and found a book binder to complete the project. The book ended up being about 60 pages.